This is not the first time that the majority of the Legislature has been of a party different from the governor; in 1969-1972, the NPP controlled the House, the PDP controlled the Senate and the Governor was the late Luis A. Ferré (NPP). Between 1981 and 1984 the Governor was Carlos Romero Barceló (NPP) and the Senate from 1981 to 1984, and the House from 1982 to 1984, were controlled by the PDP.

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Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
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The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico is the territorial legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, responsible for the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico. Eleven members of each house are elected at-large rather than from a legislative district with all members being elected for a four-year term without term limits. The structure and responsibilities of the Legislative Assembly are defined in Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico which vests all legislative power in the Legislative Assembly, every bill must be passed by both houses and signed by the Governor of Puerto Rico to become law. Each house has its unique powers, the constitution also states that each house shall be the unique judge on the legal capacity of its members. The constitution also grants immunity to all elected members of the Legislative Assembly. The Legislative Assembly convenes at the Capitol in San Juan, the House of Representatives is the oldest legislative body in Puerto Rico. It was formed on November 25,1897, when the Spanish government of Prime Minister Práxedes Mateo Sagasta granted autonomy to the island, creating a House that was composed of 32 members. After Puerto Rico was granted to the United States on July 25,1898 as part of the Spanish–American War and this was until April 12,1900 when the U. S. Congress approved the first civil government for Puerto Rico under the federal Foraker Act. S. President, and six sitting members consisting of the governors cabinet, the political arrangement under the Foraker Act continued until 1917. Puerto Rico was then divided into 7 senatorial districts and 35 representative districts, the first Puerto Rican Senate was elected in July 1917. With the approval by U. S. Congress in July 1950 of Public Law 600, two years later on July 25,1952 the Constitution of Puerto Rico was formally adopted, establishing the modern House of Representantes and Senate as the bicameral houses of the Legislative Assembly. The Constitution of Puerto Rico vests all legislative powers in the Legislative Assembly, each house has the sole power to by the judge of the legal capacities of its members. The members of houses are protected by parliamentary immunity, which Article III, Section 14 states no member of the Legislative Assembly shall be imprisoned. They also shall not be accountable for anything said in the floor. Each House holds exclusive powers that are not given to the other, the House of Representatives has the exclusive power to initiate an impeachment process and the Senate the exclusive power to pass judgement. All laws dealing with the budget or taxes must originate in the House of Representatives. The Senate retains the power to extend its consent to appointments to government offices made by the governor as stated by law or Constitution. The Legislative Assembly, with the consent of two-thirds of each chamber may propose amendments to the constitution, proposed amendments are then subject to approval by the people of Puerto Rico in a referendum

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House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
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The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the bicameral territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. The House, together with the Senate, control the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico, the structure and responsibilities of the House are defined in Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico, which vests all legislative power in the Legislative Assembly. Every bill must be passed by the Senate and by the House, the House has exclusive power to initiate impeachments and bring an indictment. Financially, all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House, the House has been meeting since 1900, after the enactment of the Foraker Act established the body formally. The House of Delegates was controlled by the Republican Party from its creation in 1900 through 1904, in January 1905, the House switched to control by the Union Party, which would remain in power until 1924. A coalition of the Republican Party and Socialist Party of Puerto Rico controlled the House until 1944, Ángel Viera Martínez, a former prosecutor and freshman representative from San Juan, was elected to the first of three stints as Speaker. In 1973, the Popular Democratic Party reacquired control of the House but was ousted as the majority party in the 1976 elections, Viera Martínez was elected in 1977, to his second stint as Speaker. Since the new House in 1981 was tied, it was unable to elect a Speaker, as required, during Bernazards incumbency, he appointed co-chairs to the House standing committees and required that all House decisions and legislation be approved by consensus. Hernandezs Speaker pro Tempore, Edison Misla Aldarondo, became Speaker in 1997, after he left office in 2000, he was convicted of corruption charges in federal and state courts. He was succeeded in office by Carlos Vizcarrondo during the 2001–2004 term, aponte was defeated for re-election as Speaker in the House caucus held after the 2008 general elections, and Jenniffer A. González Colón became the Speaker, taking office on January 12,2009. The current Speaker, as of 2017, is Carlos Johnny Méndez, the House of Representatives, along with the Senate of Puerto Rico, are in charge of the legislative power of the Government of Puerto Rico. The House has exclusive power to initiate impeachment proceedings and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the number of members of which it is composed. The Constitution also establishes that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House, the appointment of the Secretary of State shall in addition require the advice and consent of the House. The last election was held on November 6,2012 where the members of the 29th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico were elected, the next election is scheduled for November 8,2016 where the members of the 30th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico will be elected. Members of the House are elected for a four-years term, citizens cast their votes in colleges which are simply usually the nearest public school to where the voter declared as residence. Votes are required by law to be cast in secret, unless the citizen has a physical impairment that does not allow him to and those citizens unable to travel to colleges due to medical impairments may vote at their place of residence or wherever they are convalescing. Ballots are redacted in both English and Spanish regardless of whether English is a language or not. To elect the members of the House, Puerto Rico is divided into forty representative districts that do not follow a particular pattern and these districts are in turn divided into one or more precincts, an electoral division which, in turn, is constituted by colleges

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Senate of Puerto Rico
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The Senate of Puerto Rico is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. The Senate, together with the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, the structure and responsibilities of the Senate are defined in Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico which vests all legislative power in the Legislative Assembly. Every bill must be passed by both, the Senate and the House, and signed by the Governor of Puerto Rico in order to become law, the Senate has exclusive power to try and to decide impeachments. Justices of the Supreme Court can not assume office until after confirmation by the Senate, the Senate has been meeting since 1917, after the enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act established the body formally. Barceló Building, the Luis A. Ferré Building, the Ramón Mellado Parsons Office Building, the Senate of Puerto Rico was established in 1917, after the signing of the Jones Act. Signed in March 2,1917, the act made Puerto Ricans into U. S. citizens and this came to amend and improve the Foraker Act, signed in 1900, which granted limited administrative and executive powers to Puerto Ricans. From 1900 to 1917, Puerto Ricans made several attempts to convince the United States into amending the Foraker Act, in February 1914, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Rivera presented legislation in Congress insisting in the creation of a Puerto Rican Senate with more powers. Finally, in January 1916, Representative William Jones presented the Jones Act for Puerto Rico and it was signed by Woodrow Wilson on March 2,1917. In August 13,1917, the first Senate of Puerto Rico was sworn in, antonio R. Barceló was chosen as its first President, with Eduardo Georgetti as his Pro tempore. Also, José Muñoz Rivera and Manuel Palacios Salazar were selected as Secretary, in this first instance, the Senate was composed of 19 members,14 of which were chosen from each of the seven senatorial districts, and five elected at-large. The Senate, along with the House of Representatives, are in charge of the power of the Government of Puerto Rico. The Senate has exclusive power to try and to decide impeachment cases, and in meeting for such purposes, the Constitution also establishes that all Secretaries appointed by the Governor to the different executive departments, as well as all judges, require the advice and consent of the Senate. Justices of the Supreme Court can not assume office until after confirmation by the Senate, the last election was held on November 6,2012 where the members of the 25th Senate of Puerto Rico were elected. The next election is scheduled for November 8,2016 where the members of the 26th Senate of Puerto Rico will be elected, members of the Senate are elected for a four-years term. Tony Fas Alzamora is the most senior and longest-serving senator, having served for nine consecutive terms since 1981 for a total of 36 years, citizens cast their votes in colleges which are simply usually the nearest public school to where the voter declared as residence. Votes are required by law to be cast in secret, unless the citizen has a physical impairment that does not allow him to and those citizens unable to travel to colleges due to medical impairments may vote at their place of residence or wherever they are convalescing. Ballots are redacted in both Spanish and English, regardless of whether English is a language or not. For each district, citizens may vote only for the district in which they have declared their residence, the two candidates with the highest votes in the respective district serve as senators for that specific district

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Puerto Rican general election, 2004
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The Puerto Rico General Elections of 2004 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2,2004. After a count by the State Commission of Elections, the winner was inaugurated to a term as Governor of Puerto Rico on January 2,2005. m. On November 3, after 1,970,759 votes were computed, on the other hand, Luis Fortuño was certified as Resident Commissioner, while the Senate and the House of Representatives were also dominated by the New Progressive Party. The alternate commissioners were authorized by the commissioners in property of their party, Thomas Rivera Schatz. Acevedo Vilás margin of victory over Pedro Rosselló was of 3,566 votes, the recount started on Monday, November 9 as established by law, and had to finish by December 31 or earlier. During the period, Rosselló filed a lawsuit against Acevedo Vilá himself over a dispute of certain ballots that were cast during the elections. This led to a controversy involving appeals to the United States federal courts. The controversy reached the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, which ruled 4–3 that the ballots in question were valid, the practice is therefore considered legal and has been published in the official voters instructions by the State Election Commission for quite some time. This voting option was allowed and seen in the 1996 and 2000 elections. The individual votes for candidates not from the voters selected party are then deducted from the given to the default candidates of the voters party. The end result is a vote per candidate. Calderón-Serra and therefore should be decided by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico at the Commonwealth level, the Supreme Court affirmed its prior 4–3 decision. On December 28,2004, the recount ended and Acevedo Vilá was certified as winner, once the official winners were announced, they were inaugurated to four-year terms on January 2,2005. Because of this, the party may not receive funds from the government of Puerto Rico nor have a column in ballot papers on the following elections. However, Maria de Lourdes Santiago became the first woman from that party to be elected Senator in the history of Puerto Rico, State Commission of Elections of Puerto Rico. CEE preliminarily certifies Acevedo Vilá and Fortuño, san Juan, Puerto Rico, El Nuevo Día. State Commission of Elections of Puerto Rico - official site

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New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)
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The New Progressive Party —Spanish, Partido Nuevo Progresista — is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates for the island to become a state of the United States. The PNP is one of the two parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength and currently holds both the seat of the governor and of the resident commissioner. The party, however, has a minority in the number of mayors on the island, in national politics, party members affiliate with both the Republican and the Democratic Party of the United States. The party traces its history back to 1967, in that year, the Puerto Rico Statehood Republican Party instructed its members to not participate in a referendum held that year. Dissatisfied with the order, several dissidents left the Statehood Party, the party traces its beginnings to an August,1967 assembly in a sports complex in the sector of Country Club, San Juan, Puerto Rico. On January 5,1968, the party was belatedly certified as a political group by the State Elections Commission of Puerto Rico. The party had roots in a prior pro-statehood party led by Miguel Angel García Méndez, co-founders of the NPP alongside Luis A. Ferre were Manuel F. Alsina Capo, attorney Nelson Escalona, and Benny Frankie Cerezo. Under Luis A. Ferré, the NPP came to power in January 1969, after defeating Luis Negrón López, smaller vote totals were obtained by the Partido del Pueblo led by Governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella and the candidate from the Puerto Rican Independence Party, Antonio González. The governing party was saddled by Sánchez Vilellas break-away candidacy, who had feuded with the PPD founder and former Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, Romero Barceló would face Hernández Colón three times for the governorship. In 1980, Carlos A. Romero Barceló won reelection by a margin of approximately 3,000 votes. A prominent event during Romero Barcelós term, the Cerro Maravilla incident, the incident involved the killing of two young men who had gone to Cerro Maravilla, site of a major communications facility for the island, with the intention of attacking the facilities. Upon arriving at their Cerro Maravilla destination, the two men were ambushed and killed by the state police, further scandals erupted when it became known that an undercover police agent who was with the two men had actually engineered the whole plan. This, combined with the fact that the then-mayor of San Juan, Hernán Padilla, left the party to form his own party, helped Hernández Colón get elected to a second non-consecutive term in 1984. In 1988, San Juan Mayor and former Resident Commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Río ran as the NPP candidate for governor but lost the race to Hernández Colón, who won a third term. Rosselló launched a campaign known as Mano dura contra el crimen in which the Puerto Rico National Guard was used to assist the Island police force. His policies also included a push toward privatization of public entities and he supported the proposal for a referendum in Puerto Rico to define the political status of the island. However, the bill died in committee in the U. S. Senate, nevertheless, Rosselló carried out another plebiscite in 1998 which gave electors four options plus a fifth one, None of the Above. The boycott was successful, as the None of the Above column garnered more votes than all of the other options

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History of Puerto Rico
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The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the archipelago of Puerto Rico by the Ortoiroid people between 3,000 and 2,000 BC. Other tribes, such as the Saladoid and Arawak Indians, populated the island between 430 BC and 1000 AD, at the time of Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World in 1492, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taínos. The Taíno peoples numbers went dangerously low during the half of the 16th century because of new infectious diseases carried by Europeans, exploitation by Spanish settlers. Located in the northeastern Caribbean, Puerto Rico formed a key part of the Spanish Empire from the years of the exploration, conquest. The island was a military post during many wars between Spain and other European powers for control of the region in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The smallest of the Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico was a stepping-stone in the passage from Europe to Cuba, Mexico, Central America, and the northern territories of South America. Free land was offered to those who wanted to populate the islands on the condition that they swear their loyalty to the Spanish Crown, in 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded and subsequently became a possession of the United States. The first years of the 20th century were marked by the struggle to obtain greater democratic rights from the United States, However, the political status of Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth controlled by the United States, remains an anomaly. The settlement of Puerto Rico began with the establishment of the Ortoiroid culture from the Orinoco region in South America, some scholars suggest that their settlement dates back 4000 years. An archeological dig at the island of Vieques in 1990 found the remains of what is believed to be an Ortoiroid man which was dated to around 2000 BC. The Ortoiroid were displaced by the Saladoid, a culture from the region that arrived on the island between 430 and 250 BC. Between the seventh and 11th centuries, the Arawak are thought to have settled the island, during this time the Taíno culture developed, and by approximately 1000 AD, it had become dominant. Taíno culture has been traced to the village of Saladero at the basin of the Orinoco River in Venezuela, at the time of Columbus arrival, an estimated 30 to 60 thousand Taíno Amerindians, led by the cacique Agüeybaná, inhabited the island. They called it Borinquenthe great land of the valiant and noble Lord, the natives lived in small villages led by a cacique and subsisted on hunting, fishing and gathering of indigenous cassava root and fruit. When the Spaniards arrived in 1493, the Taíno were already in conflict with the raiding Carib, the Taíno domination of the island was nearing its end, and the Spanish arrival marked the beginning of their extinction. Their culture, however, remains part of that of contemporary Puerto Rico, musical instruments such as maracas and güiro, the hammock, and words such as Mayagüez, Arecibo, iguana, Caguas and huracán are examples of the legacy left by the Taíno. On September 24,1493, Christopher Columbus set sail on his voyage with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 soldiers from Cádiz. On November 19,1493 he landed on the island, naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist, Ponce de Leon was actively involved in the Higuey massacre of 1503 in Puerto Rico

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Governor of Puerto Rico
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The governor of Puerto Rico is the head of government of Puerto Rico and, by its nature, constitutes the executive branch of the government of the island. He is also the commander-in-chief of the military forces, the Puerto Rico National Guard. Since 1948, the governor has been elected by the people of Puerto Rico, prior to that, the governor was appointed either by the King of Spain or the President of the United States. Article IV of the Constitution of Puerto Rico vests the executive power on the governor, law No.104 of 1956 empowers him with the faculty to delegate functions. These two faculties in conjunction allow the governor to delegate most of his functions while continuing to be the maximum officer, most of the governors functions are delegated to the Chief of Staff, who is charged with managing and overseeing all the executive departments and almost all executive agencies. The budget is delegated to the Director of the Office of Management, historically, however, governors tend to be heavily involved in the day-to-day operations of the government in both internal and external affairs. It is believed that the rank was apparently established through democratic means. His importance in the tribe was determined by the size of his rather than his warlord skills. Agüeybaná I is the most-well known cacique as he was the one governing all others when the Spaniards arrived in 1493 although many others existed during his period, as well as before and after him. Juan Ponce de León was appointed as the first Governor of Puerto Rico in 1508, in 1579, after several others had already served as governor, Juan Ponce de León II became the first person born in Puerto Rico to assume, temporarily, the governorship of Puerto Rico. He served until, who assumed the governorship of the island that same year, in 1914 Howard Lewis Kern from Charles City, Iowa was appointed by Woodrow Wilson to be the attorney general. The acting governor fell ill and Kern served as the acting governor off and on from 1914 to 1916, during that time Governor Kern focused on cleaning up the riff-raff, educating women and children, providing public health and welfare. Kern was partner in starting the International Telephone and Telegraph Company from the failing Puerto Rican Radio and his wife, Edna Francis and their first daughter, Myrna Quail resided in the governors mansion across the street from Fortaleza. Their second daughter, Virginia was born in Newark after their return to the north, ref. cited-Whos Who in America and the San Juan Islander Newspaper 1916-1924. It is believed that Juan Bernardo Huyke may have served as an interim or acting governor in the absence of Kern, who resigned in 1924. Emmet Montgomery Reily and Horace Mann Towner also served in the appointment of governorship, in 1946, President Harry Truman appointed Jesús T. Piñero to the governors seat. Piñero remained in office until 1948, when Puerto Ricans were allowed to choose their governor for the first time in history, in 1948, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican elected Governor of Puerto Rico. The governor is head of the government of Puerto Rico and he has the power to veto any number of projects that the Puerto Rican Legislature wishes to pass

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Kenneth McClintock
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Kenneth Davison McClintock Hernández served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, one of the four longest serving in that post. He chaired Luis Fortuño’s Incoming Committee on Government Transition in 2008 and the Outgoing Committee on Government Transition in 2012, the only Puerto Rican to serve in both capacities. He was sworn into office as Secretary of State on January 2,2009, by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, McClintock was born in London, England, on January 19,1957. His father, George Davison McClintock, an Irish-American architect born in Texas City, mcClintock’s mother, Nívea M. Hernández, born in Puerto Rico, was a university professor and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Puerto Rico. Kenneth, along with his brother Steven George and his sister Elaine Mercedes, were raised and educated in Puerto Rico. McClintock never applied for admission to the bar, neither in Louisiana nor in Puerto Rico, as his intention was not to practice law and he began that public service before law school, as the staff director for the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Consumer Affairs Committee. He subsequently served as an assistant to the NPP House delegation, under delegation leaders Jose Granados Navedo. He also served as an aide to then-Senator and current mayor of Guaynabo Hector ONeill, McClintock has spent most of his adult life working in the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly, first as a full-time staffer and subsequently as a legislator, before serving as Secretary of State. While in college, he was an Amway independent distributor, learning how to run a private business. After retiring from government service, he joined Politank*, a government affairs firm as Senior Public Policy Advisor and he was married on July 16,1994, to Maria Elena Batista, director of Sports and Recreation for the municipality of San Juan and a former Olympic swimmer. After separating on February 18,2011, they divorced in 2012 after 18 years of marriage and he lives in San Juan where he is an active member of the Puerto Rican Episcopal Church and a delegate to its Diocesan Assembly. Involved in politics since the age of 13, at the age of 14, in 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. In 1979 McClintock served as the first Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association President, in 1984, the Jaycees honored him with the Outstanding Young Man of the Year in Journalism Award for his weekly columns in the now-defunct El Mundo daily newspaper. He was the Executive Director of the U. S, Democratic Party, chapter of Puerto Rico, from 1984 to 1988 and has attended all ten Democratic Party conventions since 1976 as a delegate, a superdelegate or as a staffer. A Democratic National Committeeman since 2000, he was reelected in 2012 to his fourth term, in 1988 he ran unsuccessfully as the New Progressive Party candidate in House District 5. In 1992, he was elected the youngest Senator-at-Large for the 12th Legislature, in November 1996 he was the top vote getter among all NPP and PDP senatorial candidates. In 1996, President Bill Clinton appointed McClintock as a member of the Democratic Platform Committee. Since 2001, Senate rules require a vote to change the presidency

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Guayama, Puerto Rico
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Guayama, officially the Autonomous Municipality of Guayama is a city and municipality on the Caribbean coast of Puerto Rico. As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the city had a population of 45,362 and it is the center of the Guayama metropolitan area, which was home to 84,214 in 2010. During the early years of the Spanish colonization, the region known today as Guayama was inhabited by Taíno Indians, the indigenous population in this area decreased due to slavery and migration to the Lesser Antilles. The following centuries, the region was attack from the Taíno rebellion, Caribs. Guayama took its name from an Indian leader, or cacique who governed the Southeastern region of the Island, the Guamaní cacique, the meaning of the Indian name is Great Place. It was Governor Don Tomás de Abadía who officially declared Guayama a pueblo with the name of San Antonio de Padua de Guayama and that same year the Catholic Church in town, San Antonio de Padua, was declared a Parish. In 1776, Guayama had 200 houses, the church and a central plaza, construction on Guayamas Parroquial church of San Antonio de Padua began in 1827 and was completed 40 years later. In 1828 the construction of the Kings House was completed and the church was rebuilt as well, earlier that year, Guayama was hit by a terrible fire that destroyed 57 houses and 9 huts. Guayama territorial order was altered at different times through the years, some of the most populated neighborhoods were segregated to form new towns. Patillas was established in 1811 as an independent municipality, in 1831, the territory comprised the neighborhoods, Algarrobos, Ancones, Arroyo, Carreras, Guayama Pueblo, Guamaní, Jobos, Machete, and Yaurel. Later, Arroyo was divided into Arroyo Este and Arroyo Oeste and neighborhoods emerged, Pozo Hondo, Palmas de Aguamanil, Caimital, Pitajayas, Cuatro Calles, Sabana Eneas, Palmas, the later had been segregated from Coamo. In 1855, Arroyo was separated to become an independent municipality, taking the neighborhoods, Ancones, Arroyo, Yaurel, Pitajaya, and Cuatro Calles. By 1878, Guayama was a department head including, Comerío, Cidra, Cayey, Salinas, Arroyo, San Lorenzo, Aguas Buenas, Caguas, Gurabo, and Juncos. The development continued with the construction of the cemetery in 1844, the slaughterhouse and meat market in 1851. By then Guayama had fourteen sugar plantations operating with steam engines, in 1881, Guayama is declared a Villa. During the Spanish–American War, American forces under General Nelson A. Miles landed at Guánica near Ponce on July 25,1898. Ponce, said at the time to be the largest city in Puerto Rico, was connected with San Juan by a 70-mile military road, well defended by the Spanish at Coamo and Aibonito. General Brooke occupied Guayama August 5,1898, after slight opposition, on August 9, the Battle of Guamaní took place north of Guayama

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Humacao, Puerto Rico
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Humacao is a municipality in Puerto Rico located in the eastern coast of the island, north of Yabucoa, south of Naguabo, east of Las Piedras, and west of Vieques Passage. Humacao is spread over 10 wards and Humacao Pueblo and it is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. The region of what is now Humacao belonged to the Taíno region of Jumaca, the region was led by cacique Jumacao. The Taíno settlement was located on the shores of what is called now the Humacao River, in the letter, Jumacao argued that their people were virtually prisoners of Spain. It is said that King Charles was so moved by the letter that he ordered the Governor to obey the terms of the treaty, during the early 16th Century, the region was populated by cattle ranchers. However, since most of them resided in San Juan. At the beginning of the 18th Century, specifically around 1721–1722, still, some settlers remained and by 1776, historian Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra visited the area and wrote about the population there. By 1793, the church was recognized as parish and the settlement was recognized as town. By 1894, Humacao was recognized as a city, due to its thriving population, buildings and structures like a hospital, a theater, and a prison were built in the city. In 1899, after the United States invasion of the island as a result of the Spanish–American War and this lasted until 1914, when the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico voted on splitting both towns again. Recently, Humacao has been led by mayor Marcelo Trujillo Panisse for more than a decade, a basketball star in his early years, Trujillo has pushed for the development of infrastructure facilities for sports and the fine arts in the city. On March,2008, a new Roman Catholic diocese was established as the Fajardo-Humacao diocese and its first bishop is Monsignor Eusebio Chebito Ramos Morales, a maunabeño who was rector of the Humacaos main parish in the 1990s. Humacao is located in the southeast coast of Puerto Rico and it is bordered by the municipalities of Naguabo to the north, Yabucoa to the south, and Las Piedras to the west. The Atlantic Ocean borders the city in the east, Humacao is located in the region of the Eastern Coastal Plains, with most of its territory being flat. There are minor elevations to the southwest, like Candelero Hill, Humacaos territory covers 45 square miles. Two islands belong to Humacao, Cayo Santiago and Cayo Batata, Humacaos hydrographic system consists of many rivers and creeks like Humacao, Antón Ruíz, and Candelero. Some of its creeks are Frontera, Mariana, and Del Obispo, one of the most notable tourist mainstays is the Palmas del Mar resort, which is the islands largest resort. This megaresort is composed of over 3,000 acres of land, the resort contains over 20 tennis courts, two world-class golf courses, beaches, several restaurants and a riding center

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Carolina, Puerto Rico
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Carolina is a municipality located on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico. It lies immediately east of the capital San Juan and Trujillo Alto, north of Gurabo and Juncos, Carolina is spread over 12 wards plus Villa Carolina. It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area, and home to Puerto Ricos main airport, the town was founded by Spanish colonists in 1816 as Trujillo Bajo, along with its counterpart Trujillo Alto after Trujillo, Spain. In 1857 it was renamed to San Fernando de la Carolina, later shortened to Carolina, Carolina was also home to Jesús T. Piñero, the first Puerto Rican to be appointed as governor by the United States government. The City is also known as El Pueblo de los Tumba Brazos, during the late 1800s, the towns major export was sugar cane. Sugar cane workers solved their issues by fighting with their machetes, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, the countrys main airport, is located in Isla Verde. Also located in Carolina are a group of hotels, which sit by Carolinas large beach area. There are several hotels on the coast of Carolina, including the El San Juan Resort and Casino, InterContinental San Juan Hotel and the Ritz-Carlton San Juan Hotel, Spa. Executive Airlines, a ground handling company and subsidiary of American Airlines, is headquartered on the grounds of Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina. The Gigantes de Carolina professional baseball use the Roberto Clemente Stadium as their home field. There is also team with the same name, the Giants de Carolina. That team also uses the Roberto Clemente Stadium as its home field, professional horse jockey Emanuel Jose Sanchez was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Riding the mare Mark Me Special he captured the 7th race at Colonial Downs on June 19,2005, all municipalities in Puerto Rico are administered by a mayor, elected every four years. The current mayor of Carolina is José Aponte Dalmau, of the Popular Democratic Party and he was elected in 2007, after a special election, succeeding his late father, José Aponte de la Torre. Aponte de la Torre was elected mayor in 1984 and served for 23 years, the city belongs to the Puerto Rico Senatorial district VIII, which is represented by two Senators. In 2012, Pedro A. Rodríguez and Luis Daniel Rivera were elected as District Senators, the Carolina Police Department, with most of its precincts in the northern half of the city due to the density of the population, handle law enforcement responsibilities. Puerto Rico Police Department also has jurisdiction in Carolina, especially for narcotics enforcement, Carolina created the first municipal fire department in Puerto Rico. The Carolina Fire Department in collaboration with the Carolina Municipal Emergency Management use two engine trucks, one track and one special hazard engine truck

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Hector Ferrer
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Héctor J. Ferrer Ríos is a Puerto Rican politician and attorney. He served as a legislator in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2012 for three consecutive terms and he currently the president of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico since 2017 Ferrer was born on March 27,1966 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a scholarship in baseball to study at the University of North Carolina. There, he received a Bachelors degree with a major in Economics and he then received a Juris doctor from the School of Law of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. In March 1997, he was one of the top 10 grades at the bar exam, after graduating, Ferrer worked as a private attorney. Ferrer was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives at the 2000 general elections, during his first term, he served as Majority Whip for the PPD, and presided the Committees of Ethics, Federal and International Affairs, and Consumer Affairs. Ferrer was reelected at the 2004 general elections, this time as a Representative At-large and this time, his party lost the Majority in both the Senate and the House, and Ferrer took over as Minority Speaker. In 2008, Ferrer was reelected for a consecutive term. Due to the defeat of the PPD in the race for Governor, the defeat of the PPD led to the resignation of Aníbal Acevedo Vilá as President. In 2011, he surrendered the presidency of the party to new gubernatorial candidate, however, after being arrested for domestic abuse, he dropped his candidacy and moved away from politics until 2016. In 2016, Ferrer ran for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Ferrer was in a relationship Elisa Beba Hernández for seven years. Ferrer has two children from a previous relationship. Ferrers brother, Eduardo, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012, Ferrer is an avid athlete and practices a variety of sports, including baseball, jogging, cycling, and swimming, among others. In September 2015, Ferrer announced that he was diagnosed cancer in the esophagus. In February 2012, Ferrer was detained after allegations of abuse against his long-term partner. Initially, Hernández was granted an order against Ferrer for one year. Shortly after, however, she asked for it to be rescinded, with conflicting versions surrounding the circumstances of the event and how it was handled, Ferrer resigned all of his political positions five days after the accusation. Several months later, the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutors Panel determined there was insufficient evidence against Ferrer and opted not to press any charges against him

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Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)
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The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies on the center-left. In recent years, however, the party leaders have described the party as being centrist, the PPD played a significant role in the history of Puerto Rico. In the early 1950s, the party held a majority in the delegation convened to draft the Constitution of Puerto Rico. The party afterward ruled all branches of the Puerto Rican government for 36 of the past 64 years, today, the party is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength. It holds more than half of the seats of mayors in the municipalities of Puerto Rico and minorities in the Senate and its last governor was Alejandro García Padilla who governed the island from 2013–2017 under a government trifecta. In terms of standing, the PPD differs itself from the parties in the island. The partys historic opponent has been the New Progressive Party, which advocates for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States, both parties have ruled the island unopposed since the constitution was ratified. Members of the party are referred to in different terms depending on their faction, in general, those affiliated to the party are commonly called populares and mostly affiliate with the Democratic Party of the United States. Internally, members aligned with the delegation that drafted the constitution compose the largest faction and are referred to as conservatives, a smaller liberal faction is referred to as soberanistas. This faction advocates for Puerto Rico to enter a compact of association with the United States rather than under the United States. Dissidents expelled from the Liberal Party of Puerto Rico, founded the PPD in 1938, many of them were part of the old socialist movement of Puerto Rico. The dissident faction, initially calling themselves the Partido Liberal, Neto, in 1940, the highest elective political office in Puerto Rican was as president of its Senate. At the time, the governor was appointed by the president of the United States, in the 1940 election, the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico finished in a dead heat with the Liberal Party. Luis Muñoz Marin of the PPD brokered an alliance with minor Puerto Rican factions so as to secure his position as Senate president, such coalition-building was fundamental to the multi-party society. The elections in 1944 and 1948 resulted in greater victory margins for the PPD, nearly all the legislative posts, once Jesús T. Piñero stepped down as the first Puerto Rican named governor, the governors office became an elected position. In 1949, under the leadership of Luis Muñoz Marín, the PPD won the first gubernatorial elections in Puerto Rico, and Muñoz became the first elected governor of the island. He served for what is the longest continuous rule by a governor in Puerto Rican history and this record has been surpassed only by Miguel de la Torre, one of the governors under Spanish rule. On May 21,1948, one of the PPD introduced a bill that would restrain the rights of the independence

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Puerto Rican Independence Party
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The Puerto Rican Independence Party is a social-democratic political party in Puerto Rico that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from United States suzerainty. Those who follow the PIP ideology are usually called independentistas, pipiolos, the party began as the electoral wing of the Puerto Rican independence movement. It is the largest of the parties, and the only one that is on the ballot during elections. In 1948, two years after being founded, the PIP gathered 10. 2% of the votes in the island. In 1956 it took 12. 4% of the votes, in 19603. 1%, in 1964, 4%, in 1968,3.5, in 1972,5.4, in 1976,5.7, in 1980,5.4, in 1984,3.6, and in 1988,5.5. In 2004 it obtained 2. 7% of the votes, the party was founded on 20 October 1946, by Gilberto Concepción de Gracia and his colleague Fernando Milán Suárez. They felt the movement had been betrayed by the Popular Democratic Party. In the case of Puerto Rican independence groups, J. Edgar Hoovers 1961 memo refers to our efforts to disrupt their activities, scholars say the papers provide invaluable additions to the recorded history of Puerto Rico. I expect that this will alter somewhat the analysis of why independence hasnt made it, said Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, in the 1940s, independence was the second-largest political movement in the island, and a real alternative. Freeh gave the first public acknowledgment of the federal governments Puerto Rican surveillance and offered a mea culpa. Your question goes back to a period, particularly in the 1960s, freeh said, according to transcripts of the hearing. Freeh said that he would make the available and see if we can redress some of the egregious illegal action, maybe criminal action. The FBIs surveillance of any person or organization advocating Puerto Ricos independence has been recognized by the FBIs top leadership, the FBIs past surveillance of the pro-independence movement is detailed in 1.8 million documents, a fraction of which were released in 2000. In 1971, the PIP gubernatorial candidate, Rubén Berríos led a protest against the US Navy in Culebra, during the 1972 elections, the PIP showed the largest growth in its history while running a democratic socialist, pro-worker, pro-poor campaign. The Marxist–Leninist faction, called the terceristas, split into several groups, the biggest of them went into the Popular Socialist Movement, while the rest went into the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. In 1999, PIP leaders, especially Rubén Berríos, became involved in the Navy-Vieques protests started by many citizens of Vieques against the presence of the US military in the island-municipality. During the 2008 elections, the PIP lost official recognition for the second time, loss of recognition was official on January 2,2009. The minimum vote percentage to keep official recognition is 3. 0% as per the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico law, the party also lost both of its seats in the legislature, where they had had one seat in each house

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Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government, Ponce, Puerto Ricos most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Ponce is often referred to as La Perla del Sur, La Ciudad Señorial, the city serves as the governmental seat of the autonomous municipality as well as the regional hub for various Government of Puerto Rico entities, such as the Judiciary of Puerto Rico. It is also the center for various other commonwealth and federal government agencies. The municipality has a total of 31 barrios, including 19 outside the urban area and 12 in the urban area of the city. Ponce is a city of both the Ponce Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Ponce-Yauco-Coamo Combined Statistical Area. The municipality of Ponce is the second largest in Puerto Rico by land area, the region of what is now Ponce belonged to the Taíno Guaynia region, which stretched along the southern coast of Puerto Rico. Agüeybaná, a cacique who led the region, was among those that greeted Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León when he came to the island in 1508. Archeological findings have identified four sites within the municipality of Ponce with archeological significance, Canas, Tibes, Caracoles, during the first years of the colonization, Spanish families started settling around the Jacaguas River, in the south of the island. For security reasons, these moved to the banks of the Rio Portugués. Starting around 1646 the whole area from the Rio Portugués to the Bay of Guayanilla was called Ponce, in 1670, a small chapel was raised in the middle of the small settlement and dedicated in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Among its earliest settlers were Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, on September 17,1692, the King of Spain Carlos II issued a Cédula Real converting the chapel into a parish, and in so doing officially recognizing the small settlement as a hamlet. It is believed that Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, Juan Ponce de Leóns great-grandson, was instrumental in obtaining the permit to formalize the founding of the hamlet. Captains Enrique Salazar and Miguel del Toro where also instrumental, the city is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. In the early 18th century Don Antonio Abad Rodriguez Berrios built a chapel under the name of San Antonio Abad. The area would receive the name of San Antón, a historically important part of modern Ponce. In 1712 the village was chartered as El Poblado de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Ponce, in the early 19th century, Ponce continued to be one of dozens of hamlets that dotted the Island. Its inhabitants survived by subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, and maritime contraband with foreigners, however, in the 1820s, three events took place that dramatically changed the size of the town forever

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Roberto Arango
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Arango represented the San Juan district and voted for anti-gay legislation several times. The married senator resigned his position after a series of photos were made public from the gay match website Grindr were made public. In addition he admitted that he was gay and returned to the private sector, Arango was born in the city of Miami in the United States. Both of his parents were Cuban, Arango studied at Colegio San Ignacio in San Juan. He then graduated from Louisiana State University receiving a Bachelors degree in Marketing, after that, he worked as a food importer and wholesaler, which led him to make a point in his first campaign that he came from the private sector and was not a career politician. After graduating, Arango worked for Procter & Gamble in several managerial positions, in 1989, Arango founded his own food distribution company called Intercontinental Food Distributors. In 2003, he was named Young Entrepreneur of the year by the Business Men and Women International Alliance, Arango decided to run for Senator for the San Juan District on the 2004 general elections. During the PNP primaries, he was the top vote-getter for San Juan district senator, in the general election on November 4,2004 he was also the top vote-getter. He and running mate Carlos Díaz defeated incumbent Popular Democratic Party senators Margarita Ostolaza, upon taking office, Senate President Kenneth McClintock appointed him chairman of the Senate Commerce, Tourism and Infrastructure Committee, a post he held until May 2005. Arango then served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference, an alumnus of CSG/ERCs Eastern Leadership Academy, he was elected president of the class of 2006. He was a member of CSGs Toll Fellows Program class of 2007, active in the Republican Party, he was the San Juan congressional district GOP committee chair and vice-chaired the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney Puerto Rico campaign in 2004. Within the NPP he was chair of its statehood ideological institute until he was removed for supporting Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuños gubernatorial bid against NPP President Pedro Rosselló and he was nominated for a second term in the 2008 PNP primary, which he won. In the 2008 general elections, he was the top vote-getter within the San Juan District and his fellow senators chose him as the Senate Majority Leader for the term, the top Senate leadership position after the Senate Presidency, for which Sen. Thomas Rivera Schatz was selected. As Majority Leader, he was charged with the task of pursuing the approval of the PNPs programmatic legislation in the legislative body. One of his pet issues was his opposition to the firing in the air of firearms during the season, especially in New Years Eve. On December 21,2008, he held a joint press conference on the issue with Guayama, Puerto Rico Mayor-elect Glorimari Jaime and several pop artists, in August 2011, several nude pictures of a man, allegedly Arango, started circulating the press. The images were posted on Grindr, a gay mobile dating site. Arango distanced himself from the images and publicly stated that his adversaries were responsible for igniting the scandal

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San Juan, Puerto Rico
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San Juan is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricos capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, today, San Juan is Puerto Ricos most important seaport, and is the islands manufacturing, financial, cultural, and tourism center. San Juan is also a city of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the settlement which he called Caparra. In 1521, the settlement was given its formal name. On the other hand, the name for the island became the name for the city only after the occupation of the island by the United States. San Juan, as a settlement of the Spanish Empire, was used by merchant, because of its prominence in the Caribbean, a network of fortifications was built to protect the transports of gold and silver from the New World to Europe. Because of the cargoes, San Juan became a target of the foreign powers of the time. The city was witness to attacks from the English led by Sir Francis Drake in 1595 and by George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, artillery from San Juans fort, El Morro, repelled Drake, however, Clifford managed to land troops and lay siege to the city. After a few months of English occupation, Clifford was forced to abandon the siege when his troops began to suffer from exhaustion, in 1625 the city was sacked by Dutch forces led by Captain Balduino Enrico, but El Morro withstood the assault and was not taken. The Dutch were counterattacked by Captain Juan de Amezquita and 50 members of the militia on land. The land battle left 60 Dutch soldiers dead and Enrico with a wound to his neck which he received from the hands of Amezquita. The Dutch ships at sea were boarded by Puerto Ricans who defeated those aboard, after a long battle, the Spanish soldiers and volunteers of the citys militia were able to defend the city from the attack and save the island from an invasion. On October 21, Enrico set La Fortaleza and the city ablaze, captains Amezquita and Andre Botello decided to put a stop to the destruction and led 200 men in an attack against the enemys front and rear guard. They drove Enrico and his men from their trenches and into the ocean in their haste to reach their ships, the British attack in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by Sir Ralph Abercromby. His army laid siege to the city but was forced to withdraw in defeat as the Puerto Rican defenses proved more resilient than those of Trinidad. The USS Yale captured a Spanish freighter, the Rita in San Juan Bay, on May 9, Yale fought a brief battle with an auxiliary cruiser of Spain, name unknown, resulting in a Spanish victory

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Jorge de Castro Font
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Jorge Adolfo de Castro-Font is a former Puerto Rican Senator and former member of the House of Representatives. Originally, he was a member of the Popular Democratic Party, in 2002, he became a member of the New Progressive Party and was elected Senator in 2004 and 2008, despite inner struggles within the party and legal issues. In 2008, De Castro Font was arrested by the FBI and subsequently charged with 21 charges of fraud, as a result, he was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison and 3 years probation. Jorge de Castro Font was born on September 10,1963 to former Puerto Rico Ombudsman Rafael Adolfo de Castro Campos and he is the grandson of Jorge Font Saldaña, one of former Gov. Luis Muñoz Maríns closest associates. De Castro Font was also a member of the United States Army Reserve, De Castro Font started distinguishing himself as a youth leader for the Popular Democratic Party. In 1985, he was the assistant of then-Speaker of the House of Representatives, De Castro Font decided to run for an elective post in 1988. He was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives in the 1988 general elections and he was 25 at the time, making him the youngest elected representative to that date. He was reelected to the post in the 1992,1996, in August 2001, following internal disputes within the PPD, De Castro Font left the party to become an independent representative. There are several versions of the nature and manner of him leaving the party, while De Castro states that he willfully left the party, others suggest he was forced out. On September 27,2002, De Castro Font announced he was joining the ranks of the New Progressive Party, De Castro Font went on to win the party primaries and eventually the Senate seat in the 2004 general elections. The elections resulted in a government with PPDs Aníbal Acevedo Vilá as governor. The PNP majority caucus elected De Castro Font on November 4,2004 as the Majority Leader of the newly elected Senate, while his friend Kenneth McClintock was elected President of the Senate. After joining the Senate, he expressed his hopes of becoming president of the Senate, however, six Senators, including De Castro Font, refused to do so and continued supporting McClintock. This prompted the PNP Board to expel several of these Senators, including De Castro Font, De Castro Font gave up his post as the Senate Majority Leader, but retained the chairmanship of the Senate Rules Committee, which allowed him to direct all floor activities in the Senate. De Castro did not recognize the decision to expel him. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, in the case McClintock vs. Rivera Schatz, in a subsequent case, De Castro Font vs Partido Nuevo Progresista, the Court confirmed his right to appear in the NPP primary ballot. De Castro Font was again nominated on March 9,2008 in the PNP primary by voters. On July 8,2008, it was reported that De Castro Font was under investigation for fraud and corruption by the FBI, the pro-statehood senator responded saying that he has never received money in exchange for a favor. S

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Tony Fas Alzamora
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Antonio Tony Fas Alzamora is a Puerto Rican politician and Senator. He is currently the longest-serving legislator in the history of Puerto Rico, having served in ten Legislative Assemblies, one House of Representatives, and nine Senates. Antonio Fas Alzamora was born on November 16,1948 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico to farmer Chaibén J. Fas Fagundo and he finished his elementary and high school at the Immaculate Conception Academy in Mayagüez. He then began his studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. In 1970, he received his Bachelors degree in Natural Science with a Major in Biology and he then studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce receiving his Juris Doctor in December 1972. In March 1973, Fas Alzamora passed the bar exam and began working as an attorney after establishing his own law firm in Cabo Rojo, Fas Alzamora officially began his political career with the Popular Democratic Party. In 1976, he was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives for District 20, two years later, he was also elected as president of the PPD for the District and became a member of the Board. He was reelected in 1984,1988 and 1992, in 1985, he was also appointed as Secretary General of the Popular Democratic Party. He fulfilled those duties, simultaneously with his work as Senator, during those terms, he also presided over the Commission of Tourism, Youth, Sports and Recreation. In 1993, he was appointed as Minority Speaker for his party. In the year 1996, he was elected as Senator at-large for the first time and he also continued serving as Minority Speaker in the Senate. Fas Alzamora was reelected in 2000, being the candidate from the PPD with most votes. He was elected unanimously in January,2001, as the twelfth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico, during this time, he chose Velda González as his President pro tempore. According to Fas Alzamoras biography at the Senates website, during his presidency and he was reelected in 2004 as Senator at-large, but his partys delegation size dropped from 18 to 9, becoming the principal minority party in the Senate. He relinquished the leadership to Senator José Luis Dalmau, who now serves as Minority Leader after having served as Fas Majority Leader. In 2008, Fas Alzamora was elected to his eight term at the Senate, Fas Alzamora is married to Ileana Pacheco Morales, a licensed medical laboratory scientist. They have three children, Ileana Isabel, Antonio Juan, and Marilea, Ileana Fas served as Director of the Management and Budget Office of the Government of Puerto Rico. University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez people Antonio Fas Alzamora Biography at the Wayback Machine on SenadoPR

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Arecibo, Puerto Rico
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Arecibo is a municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales, east of Hatillo, and west of Barceloneta and Florida. It is about 50 miles west of San Juan, the capital city, Arecibo is the largest municipality in Puerto Rico by area, and is part of the San Juan, Caguas and Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is spread over 18 wards and Arecibo Pueblo and its population in 2010 was 96,440. Arecibo is also known as El Diamante Del Norte and La Ribera del Arecibo, the Arecibo Observatory, until July 2016 the worlds largest radio telescope, is located here. Arecibo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arecibo, when the Spanish arrived, they found the area occupied by the indigenous Taíno, led by Xamaica Arasibo, Cacique of the yucayeque then named Abacoa. Spanish colonists settled Arecibo in 1556, which named for the cacique. It was their third settlement on the island, after Caparra and it is named after the cacique. This gave the city its nickname La Villa del Capitan Correa, for some time the island was competed for by other European powers. On August 5,1702, Captain Antonio de los Reyes Correa, commanding two British Navy ships and 40 men, Whetstone tried to take control of the city. Correa ambushed his forces, killing 22 British seamen and driving them off, the Spanish defenders suffered only one death and three wounded soldiers. In 1778, Arecibo, by decree, was awarded the Villa status. In 1850 it was awarded the Muy Leal, over time, large part of its territory became separate municipalities. These include Manati, Barceloneta, Florida, Utuado, Jayuya, Hatillo, Camuy, Quebradillas, in 1982, it was promoted to city status, though it continued to be affectionately by its previous nickname. Arecibo is located in the Northern Coastal Plain region of Puerto Rico and it lies south of the Atlantic Ocean, north of Utuado, east of Hatillo, and west of Barceloneta and Florida. The city occupies an area of 127 square miles, of which,45.23 sq mi, is water, the Rio Grande de Arecibo is the main river in the municipality, running through the middle of it. South of the municipality, in the karst region, it forms the Dos Bocas Lake, several rivers feed the Rio Grande, including the Tanama River. East of the river, lies Caño Tiburones, an important marshland area that provides habitat for many kinds of birds, cambalache State Forest is located along the Barceloneta city limits, while Rio Abajo State Forest is located between Arecibo and Utuado. Caves include Cueva Ventana, which overlooks a valley formed by the Rio Grande de Arecibo, and La Cueva del Indio, where paintings made by prehistoric indigenous peoples have been seen

The Senate of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto …

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Structure of the Senate of Puerto Rico for the purpose of elections. Puerto Rico is divided into eight (8) districts with two senators per districts. An additional eleven (11) senators are elected at-large. Both groups serve alongside each other with the same powers and rights.

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Structure of representative districts in Puerto Rico.

Structure of the House of Representatives for the purpose of elections. Puerto Rico is divided into forty (40) districts with one representative per district. An additional eleven (11) representatives are elected at-large. Both groups serve alongside each other with the same powers and rights.